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GParted LiveCD has been updated to version 0.2.5. What's new? "Added support for shrinking HFS and HFS+ file systems; added support for copying HFS+ and Reiser4 file systems; renamed menu item 'filesystems' to 'Features' to avoid future confusion; only allow growing of a copy if there is grow support for the copied file system; creating a new partition on a BSD partition table failed, causing a segmentation fault when setting the partition type - fixed." Read the rest of the changelog for more information. Download: gparted-livecd-0.2.5.iso (31.4MB).

GParted Live is a business card-size live CD distribution with a single purpose - to provide tools for partitioning hard disks in an intuitive, graphical environment. The distribution uses X.Org, the light-weight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 4.x Linux kernel. GParted Live runs on most x86 machines with a Pentium II or better.

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.29.0-1, the latest upgrade to the popular live CD with a collection of specialist tools dedicated to managing disk partitions and rescuing files. This release includes the new GParted 0.29.0 software and fixes a couple of bugs: "The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted 0.29.0, patches for libparted for FAT file system operations, and other improvements. Items of note include: includes GParted 0.29.0 which adds the following enhancements since the last stable release - add support for UDF file system, fix segmentation fault on disk with corrupted FAT file system, fix snap-to-alignment of operations creating partitions; based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2017-08-08); Linux kernel updated to 4.11.11-1; package udftools added; includes patched version of libparted which fixes check FAT32 crashes an resized FAT32 not recognized by Windows." Here is the complete release announcement. Download links (SHA256): gparted-live-0.29.0-1-amd64.iso (267MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.29.0-1-i686-pae.iso (270MB), gparted-live-0.29.0-1-i686.iso (269MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the availability of a new version of the GParted Live Linux distribution. GParted Live provides users with a Debian-based live CD with which to manipulate, rescue and rescue disk partitions from within a graphical user interface. The latest version, GParted Live 0.28.1-1, features version 4.9.6 of the Linux kernel and offers the ability to work with LUKS encrypted file systems. "The GParted team is pleased to announce another stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted 0.28.1, patches for libparted for FAT file system operations, and other improvements. This release includes partial read-write support for LUKS encrypted file systems. GParted can't create, open or close LUKS encryption volumes; however it can copy, resize and manipulate file systems inside open LUKS volumes and move closed LUKS volumes. (Resizing requires Linux kernel >= 3.6 and libparted >= 3.2 for online partition resizing)." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): gparted-live-0.28.1-1-amd64.iso (273MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.28.1-1-i686-pae.iso (274MB), gparted-live-0.28.1-1-i686.iso (274MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the availability of GParted Live 0.27.0-1, the latest stable version of the Debian-based live CD featuring a set of disk management and data rescue tools: "The GParted team is happy to announce another stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted 0.27.0, patches for libparted for FAT file system operations and other improvements. Items of note include: GParted 0.27.0 - recognize GRUB 2 core.img, fix Mount Point column which is wider than the screen on openSUSE, ensure GParted exits if closed before the initial load completes; based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-10-20; Linux kernel updated to 4.7.6; includes e2fsprogs 1.43.3 which addresses some ext2/3/4 resizing issues reported in our forums; includes patched version of libparted. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVIDIA and Intel graphics." Read the release announcement for more details. Download links (SHA256): gparted-live-0.27.0-1-amd64.iso (268MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.27.0-1-i686-pae.iso (270MB), gparted-live-0.27.0-1-i686.iso (269MB).

The developers of GParted, the GNOME Partition Editor, have released GParted Live 0.26.0-1. The new release is based on Debian's Unstable branch and features read support for LUKS. The new release ships with version 4.5.1 of the Linux kernel and has added progress bars for several file system copy operations. "The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted 0.26.0, patches for libparted for FAT file system operations, and other improvements. Items of note include: Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2016/Apr/29). Linux kernel updated to 4.5.1-1. Includes GParted 0.26.0 which implements read-only LUKS support, adds progress bars to NTFS, XFS, and EXT2/3/4 file system copy methods, fixes operations sometimes fail with 'No such file or directory'." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: gparted-live-0.26.0-1-i686.iso (268MB, SHA512, pkglist).

Curtis Gedak has announced the availability of GParted Live 0.25.0-1, the latest stable version of the project's Debian-based live CD with a collection of disk management and data rescue utilities: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This live image contains GParted 0.25.0 which adds fine progress indicators for checking and resizing ext2/3/4 partitions and for resizing NTFS partitions. Also included is improved Linux Software RAID member detection and file system clearing. Items of note include: based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-01-19; replaced i586 live image with i686 (due to change in Debian repository); Linux kernel updated to 4.3.3-5. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics. Note: if mouse cursor is not visible when GParted is running, then use the menu key to open a new terminal window. The mouse cursor should be visible again." Here is the brief release announcement. Download links (SHA256): gparted-live-0.25.0-1-amd64.iso (261MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.25.0-1-i686-pae.iso (265MB), gparted-live-0.25.0-1-i686.iso (264MB).

The developers of GParted Live, a Debian-based live distribution for managing disk partitions, have announced the launch of a new version of their distribution. The new version, GParted Live 0.24.0-2, is based on the latest Debian Unstable packages and includes the ability to detect ZFS storage pools. "The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted 0.24.0 which detects ZFS file systems, recognizes NVMe devices, prevents a hang when labelling fat16/32 file systems if illegal characters in label, and prevents a core dump if invalid or non-existent device paths are passed on the command line. Items of note include: Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2015/Oct/28); Linux kernel updated to 4.2.0-1; Fixed vi entry in right-click Editors menu (bug 755602); Added zerofree (bug 753446), efibootmgr (bug 754587), and ddrescue (bug 750240) to live image." The full release announcement can be found on the distribution's website. Download: gparted-live-0.24.0-2-i586.iso (248MB, SHA256, pkglist).

The developers of GParted Live, a live CD distribution which provides tools for managing hard drive partitions, have announced the availability of GParted Live 0.23.0-1. The new release is based on Debian's Unstable branch and fixes a number of bugs, including one which would cause the interface to hang during disk operations. The new release also includes additional hardware support, thanks to version 4.1 of the Linux kernel. "The GParted team is happy to announce a new stable release of GParted Live (0.23.0-1). This release includes GParted 0.23.0 which permits naming a GPT partition on creation, displaying the serial number in device information panel, and preventing a user interface hang when resizing FAT16/32, HFS and HFS+ file systems. Items of note include: Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2015/Aug/06); Linux kernel updated to 4.1.3-1. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics." More information on GParted Live and its features can be found on the project's home page. Download (SHA256): gparted-live-0.23.0-1-amd64.iso (243MB, pkglist)

Curtis Gedak has announced the availability of GParted Live 0.22.0-2, a Debian-based live disc which provides a graphical environment that facilitates disk management. This release offers an updated Linux kernel (4.0.2), improved UEFI boot support and has been tested (and confirmed to work) on a range of Intel, ATI and NVIDIA video cards. "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release has been enhanced to enable booting on UEFI computers when the image is directly copied to boot media using the dd command. Items of note include: Uses "isohybrid --uefi" to make dd iso file work for UEFI computers; Based on the Debian Sid repository(as of 2015-May-22; Linux kernel updated to 4.0.2. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVIDIA, and Intel graphics." The release announcement and changelog contain full details. Download (SHA256) links: gparted-live-0.22.0-2-amd64.iso (230MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.22.0-2-i686-pae.iso (231MB), gparted-live-0.22.0-2-i586.iso (230MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of a new stable build of GParted Live, a Debian-based live CD with a collection of software applications designed for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This live image contains GParted 0.22.0 which now supports reading and writing file systems to disk devices without partition tables, in addition to supporting GPT partition names. Items of note include: based on the Debian's 'Sid' repository as of 2015-03-23; now uses systemd which is the new default system init on Debian; includes GParted 0.22.0: adds read and write support for unpartitioned whole disk devices; adds read and write support for GPT partition names. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVIDIA, and Intel graphics." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (SHA256) links: gparted-live-0.22.0-1-amd64.iso (227MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.22.0-1-i686-pae.iso (228MB), gparted-live-0.22.0-1-i586.iso (227MB).